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November 18, 2020 Virtual Club Meeting -

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Friday, November 20, 2020
By: Bonnie Beth Mitchell
President Jim Miller called the meeting 15th meeting of the 46th year to order at Noon. 35 people attended. Shirley Lambert offered the invocation and led the pledge of allegiance. Vice-President Steve Payerle noted that there were no visitors or guests.  

HAPPY Dollars:
  • Court Chapman reported that, April, an international scholarship winner, friend and anchor for Chinese news in LA had called to wish him a happy 91st birthday.
  • Peggy Murgatroyd reported that her granddaughter is well after being in a terrible auto accident and that a grandson has reported for assignment at an air force base in California.
  • Jennifer Best was happy to have spent last weekend with her granddaughter.
  • Shirley Lambert reported that Judy Barnhart is recovering from kidney surgery.
  • Connie Hendren reported that she is happy to have located an old pair of glasses since she stepped on her regular ones.
Announcements:
  • Steve Payerle reported that there would NOT be a poll this week.
  • Shirley Lambert asked members to send her an email or text message about item/s they will submit for the online auction.
  • Peggy Murgatroyd reported on the Christmas for children project. There are 9 children ranging from 4 to 17. Funds are needed to buy gift cards to the given to the parents. Peggy has also bought stockings for each child which will be stuffed with goodies. A request has been made to the Board to money for food. 
  • Dick Ollila asked members to fill in the online order form for their poinsettia orders. So far over 100 have been ordered, but he hopes to have 4 or 5 hundred. Orders are due on Dec 2 and pickup is December 9. Volunteers are needed for the pickup day.
  • Jim Miller noted that the Food Pantry collection in both Worthington and Dublin is this weekend.
  • Joe Patchen noted that his committee is looking for recommendations for future speakers.
  • The Communication Committee is meeting this Friday and will welcome additional members. Contact Steve Payerle if you are interested.
Sue Cody introduced her friend and neighbor, Cheryl Achterberg as today’s speaker. Cheryl, most recently, was Dean of the College of Education and Human Ecology at OSU from which she retired 2 years ago.  Now her interest is the umbrella topic of Dementia which includes Alzheimer’s since for more than 10 years she has been a caregiver for someone with dementia. Screen sharing her presentation, she noted that dementia has 3 stages – mild -- when someone is a little mixed up,  moderate --  when one someone loses their temper, ability to drive or wonders, and severe -- when basic functions degenerate and brain cells are damaged or killed. Is some loses memory and it comes back, that is not a sign of dementia. She described by picture, plaques and tangles which affect the nerves and detected with brain scans. The disease is so serious that it affects the entire family. It is perhaps the greatest social, medical, economic, scientific, philosophic and ethical challenge of our times. It is also VERY expensive – US spends 5.8 M dollars per year and worldwide 50 M is spent. Costs for nursing home or outside help for home care costs $9-10,000 per month and insurance doesn’t help much. In 2018, 122,019 people died which was 6th on the list of causes of death. Research is underfunded. Currently over 40% of people over 85 who have died of COVID also had dementia.

Prevention – look after your heart, get physical exercise, eat a healthy diet, challenge your brain with music, enjoy social activity, wear hearing aids if proscribed, treat depression, get quality sleep, decrease stress, and avoid blows to the head. For more info, check out her blog at www.cherylachterberg.net or find more information at  www.alz.org/centralohio.  Also give what you can financially and emotionally. During the question and answer period, she suggested that we take a B12 vitamin every day and that the sweet spot for coffee drinking is 3 cups per day.

After thanking the speaker, Jim Miller lead members through the Four Way test.  He also announced that no meeting will be held next week since Thanksgiving is the next day. The meeting ended at 1:05 PM.   Members were encouraged to stay for some chatting and more questions for the speaker.

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